Open Source Project Activity at the Eclipse Foundation

According to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in reviews at key points in their lifecycle. This starts with the creation review, but most reviews are concerned with releases. Every major or minor release is preceded by a release review. Service (or “bug fix”) releases are excused from the review requirement.

The CHESS project provides a model-driven, component-based methodology and tool support for the development of high-integrity systems for different domains. The methodology is particularly suited for space systems and industrial domains.

The project distills the core abstractions of a handle-based model into a uniform API and supply basic building blocks for construction of such models. It borrows heavily from some of the design patterns and principles used in the Java Model, but aims for a generalized albeit partial implementation.

The GeoScript project provides a convenient API for the Java based GeoTools library to other JVM languages. GeoScript aims to provide a relatively consistent API between different languages, preferring existing language conventions and semantics over absolute consistency. GeoScript modules can be used in existing applications or accessed via interactive shells. GeoScript does not intend to provide a complete application itself.

First incubation release. The Aether project generally provides two sets of deliverables: Aether Core, i.e. the API, SPI, utility classes and base implementation of the library; and Aether Ant Tasks, a collection of tasks for Apache Ant to employ Aether for interaction with repositories using the Apache Maven format.

Usability has been greatly improved around the paths and symbols area and scanner discovery settings. Work continues on supporting new C++ standards C++11 and C++14. We are working on C++11 and C++14 support available in gcc 4.8.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these releases, communicate directly with the project via the specified forum (you can find the appropriate forum by navigating to the project’s “Contact Us” page). For proposals, you can ask questions in the proposals forum.